Quote for Today: Alexander McCall Smith
Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, …
Quote for Today: Marie Rutkoski
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and …
Quote for Today: Augusten Burroughs
I want to write something that means something to someone…that reminds them of what a second, a moment, really is…or that assures them that we are just as lost as …
Quote for Today: Leonard Mlodinow
Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal. For example, most people consider that the greatest evidence of an event one …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
“This here ol’ man jus’ lived a life an’ just died out of it. I don’ know whether he was good or bad, but that don’t matter much. He was …
Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a …
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or …
Quote for Today: Benjamin Franklin
Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and …
Look at the Beautiful Noise: Noise Photography and Jeff Ascough
We often feel we must choose between representation of the external and expression of the internal. Can’t we enjoy both? With the advent of the digital camera ideas about image …